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The Story of the Western Wing
Author | : Shi-fu Wang |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520916739 |
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China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play has given rise to innumerable sequels, parodies, and rewritings; it has influenced countless later plays, short stories, and novels and has played a crucial role in the development of drama criticism. This translation of the full and complete text of the earliest extant version is available in paperback for the first time. The editors' introduction will inform students of Chinese cultural and literary traditions.
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature From 1375
Author | : Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Chinese literature |
ISBN | : 0521855594 |
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Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
How to Read Chinese Drama
Author | : Patricia Sieber,Regina Llamas |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780231546669 |
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This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts. How to Read Chinese Drama highlights how each play sheds light on key aspects of the dramatic tradition, including genre conventions, staging practices, musical performance, audience participation, and political resonances, emphasizing interconnections among chapters. It brings together leading scholars spanning anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, history, literature, and theater studies. How to Read Chinese Drama is straightforward, clear, and concise, written for undergraduate students and their instructors as well as a wider audience interested in world theater. For students of Chinese literature and language, the book provides questions to explore when reading, watching, and listening to plays, and it features bilingual excerpts. For teachers, an analytical table of contents, a theater-specific chronology of events, and lists of visual resources and translations provide pedagogical resources for exploring Chinese theater within broader cultural and comparative contexts. For theater practitioners, the volume offers deeply researched readings of important plays together with background on historical performance conventions, audience responses, and select modern adaptations.
Middle Imperial China 900 1350
Author | : Linda Walton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108356299 |
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In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.
Paradoxes of Traditional Chinese Literature
Author | : Eva Hung |
Publsiher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9622015948 |
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This book is a collection of nine articles on various paradoxical aspects of traditional Chinese literature. The literary works chosen for analysis range from the Tang dynasty to the late Qing. Besides providing new approaches to the well known classic authors such as Honglou Meng, Jin Ping Mei, Xixiang ji, and Liaozhai zhiyi, there are also detailed analysis of such diverse works as Liu Zongyuan's fiction, analogues of the Liu Yi story, lesser known versions of the play White Rabbit, as well as a number of late Qing fictions. Contributors to this volume include some of the most respected names in sinology today.
The Promise and Peril of Things
Author | : Wai-yee Li |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231553896 |
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Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do our connections with the world of things define us? In Ming and Qing China, inquiry into things and their contradictions flourished, and its depth and complexity belie the notion that material culture simply reflects status anxiety or class conflict. Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She explores how aesthetic claims and political power intersect, probes the objective and subjective dimensions of value, and questions what determines authenticity and aesthetic appeal. Li considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture. With examples spanning the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, she shows how relations with things can both encode and resist social change, political crisis, and personal loss. The Promise and Peril of Things reconsiders major works such as The Plum in the Golden Vase, The Story of the Stone, Li Yu’s writings, and Wu Weiye’s poetry and drama, as well as a host of less familiar texts. It offers new insights into Ming and Qing literary and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as the intersections of material culture with literature, intellectual history, and art history.
The Royal Parks and Gardens of London Their History and Mode of Embellishment with Hints on the Propagation and Culture of the Plants Employed the Artistic Arrangement of Colours c
Author | : Nathan Cole |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Gardens, English |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044103112801 |
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God Mode
Author | : Phenomenal Pen |
Publsiher | : Phenomenal Pen |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2023-05-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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PREPARE TO MEET THY MAKER Whole brain emulation (WBE) tech makes it possible for human consciousness to be transferred into any organic or synthetic body. Its inventor, Augma Industries, has secretly launched illegal human trials on university campuses in the Third World. College sophomore Theo Bondoc has absolutely nothing going for him. He’s a hypochondriac nerd and a mama’s boy. He has no money and no connections. But his luck dramatically changes when he gets his first ever girlfriend: undercover superspy Amy Miyahara. Their peaceful student lives are interrupted by sightings of mechanical bees and a run-in with brainwashed frat boys. The source of all the strange happenings is Beta Mu, a cult masquerading as a frat and backed by the rich and powerful. Its members are Transhumanists who believe in an ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) deity. Now Theo and Amy must uncover a grand conspiracy in order to prevent all of humanity from being enslaved by an emergent godlike being.